All Comment articles – Page 20
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Opinion'We have heard them loud and clear'
Review of criminal aid is not just about pay and conditions - our ambition is for long-term transformation.
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OpinionHow to tame the ghost in the machine
Artificial intelligence does not have to be impenetrable to be useful.
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OpinionWhy is Raab so keen to hand the SRA extra powers?
New fining limit has been rushed through to make it look as if the government is acting on 'enablers'.
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OpinionPro bono left to pick up the slack
Attempting to fill the gap left by an exodus of lawyers from the criminal justice system is an impossible task.
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OpinionSetting the record straight on barristers' pay
The public would be alarmed to know how much legal aid lawyers actually earn.
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OpinionDamning verdict on Raab’s Bill of Rights
It is, in one striking phrase, ‘a powerpoint of key messages…mashed together in a piece of legislation’.
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OpinionData: the wrong direction
Public Law Project outlines its main concerns following the government's response to the consultation 'Data: a new direction'.
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OpinionSRA fining power increase should not be conflated with sanctions regime
Raising the regulator's fining powers to £25,000 would risk the development of two separate approaches to policy on the imposition of penalties.
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OpinionThe Strasbourg court’s disgraceful Rwanda intervention
The UK would be well within its rights to deny that the court has authority to place it under a legal obligation to comply.
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OpinionNorthern Ireland and the doctrine of necessity
UK government claims a clear basis in international law to justify the non-performance of international obligations.
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OpinionWhat makes an O-shaped junior lawyer?
How to develop and show your potential to be the well-rounded lawyer that law firms and clients are vying for.
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OpinionBringing a clin neg claim – it could easily have been me
Arguments that frame cases as a ‘drain on the NHS’ are promoted by people who have not experienced the fallout of clinical negligence.
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OpinionMishcon’s IPO U-turn highlights risks of going public
Partners are looking at the financial benefits listing might bring and still deciding against it.
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OpinionWhy we need a Bad Law Project
There are signs that the legal system is slowly succumbing to the coercive culture of compelled speech.
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OpinionThe cost of living crisis and the rule of law
It is inevitable that our various current crises affect solicitors. This time, the spotlight shifts to those struggling to make a living in the legal aid sector.
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OpinionTime is running out to help save the criminal justice system
There is just one week to go until the government’s criminal legal aid consultation closes.
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OpinionFirst year of RTA portal was great for insurers: what next?
Number of claims down, firms dropping out, claimants in limbo. For insurers, the portal worked like a charm.
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OpinionHow can we defend clients when we cannot defend ourselves?
Whilst united in outrage at inequities meted out to the criminal law community, we are seemingly ill equipped to agree the nature of action to be taken.